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Steam Summer Sales Thread: remember: you can actually play after buying
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OmegaDragon
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I only played Stalker; Shadow of Chernobyl. Bit rough around the edges, but I loved it. The first few underground labs were tense.
I think I'm gonna get Beat Hazard, but damn it's busy
I think I'm gonna get Beat Hazard, but damn it's busy
1-D_FTW said:
That would be about as real world as Britain suddenly turning around and declaring war on the USA in the middle of the Iraq invasion. I'm fine with sudden moves with countries you don't have particularily strong ties to, but to smooze and cuddle with your bestest friend country in the world for half the game and then all of a sudden have him team up with the country that you both hate the most to bring down your utter destruction? That's just broken.
The AI's in 4 definitely have a lot more personality which you learn the more you play. God damn montezuma being a prick and Japan being so damn hard to convince into your bed.
Eric WK said:
I thought comcast had some hefty plans for the wealthy that would easily push past 30mb/s. Even around here you can get 250/15 which puts your right near 30MB/s.
Sanic
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Could somebody maybe provide a quick list of games that always go on sale, but have yet to be featured as a daily deal for this sale? I'm basically at the point where if I buy something today i'll no longer be able to afford the id super pack, so I need to determine if there's anything coming up that I may want more than that.
echoshifting said:
Seems like it, I just started downloading HL2 (because it told me ten times servers were busy when I tried to start PoP 2008), which funnily and not suspiciously started on the first try, shot up to over half a MB/s immediatly, which is still slow compared to the theoretical speed this connection could do, while Torchlight is still stuck at ~40 KB/S.
It has been telling me that´s it´s done in 5 minutes for half an hour. Heh. At least it´s down to 1 min left now.
/yells at cloud
Netrunner2k2
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Veal said:
Blame the publisher, their stupid choice. I'm not sure why every company doesn't have a preload for any game that can be preordered.
anyone else having issues with steam?
I purchased Stalker Cop and Clear sky but did not get a receipt ( I was at home during lunch when I did this).
Im at work now trying to install steam to office computer but it wont send out the steam guard email so I can put that into steam to log in.
I also noticed I did not receive email receipts for my purchases today when I normally get them instantly (as I did yesterday when I purchased Alpha Protocol and Frozen Synapse).
Ive already put in a ticket with steam support, I just hope my account did not get hacked...kinda anxious to get back home now and check though.
I purchased Stalker Cop and Clear sky but did not get a receipt ( I was at home during lunch when I did this).
Im at work now trying to install steam to office computer but it wont send out the steam guard email so I can put that into steam to log in.
I also noticed I did not receive email receipts for my purchases today when I normally get them instantly (as I did yesterday when I purchased Alpha Protocol and Frozen Synapse).
Ive already put in a ticket with steam support, I just hope my account did not get hacked...kinda anxious to get back home now and check though.
The Stealth Fox
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3chopl0x said:another page
if you guys want me to stop spamming this just say so
I'd like to but I have money locked into my steam wallet. So I'll probably just spend the 17 as if I went outside my steam wallet I'd, in total, be spending more.
chixdiggit
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loblaw said:
I payed full price for it and don't regret it. I'm sure you will get $3.74 of entertainment out of it.
Dog Problems
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Smokey said:lol that 200GB cap or whatever Comcast puts in place seems mighty small now.
Factor in game downloads, streaming, etc
Yeah, no kidding. I've been checking it daily just to make sure I'm not getting close.
Basileus777
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Monday Night Combat's community still alive?
giancarlo123x
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I said fuck it and bought Monday Night Combat out of impulse with my friends, it looks good. Someone want to tell me about it?
I hope they've fixed the Steam versions of STALKER SoC and CoP. CoP, in particular, loaded incredibly slowly (like 2 minute load times), and would freeze and stutter a lot during gameplay.
I had to download the cracked .exe for it to work properly. It then loaded in 10-15 seconds and ran perfectly.
I had to download the cracked .exe for it to work properly. It then loaded in 10-15 seconds and ran perfectly.
TheExodu5 said:
Good lord how did you come across that pricing? They're 50/5 plan standalone is more than that. If I was well off I'd totally go for the 250/5. I actually have to find an ISP for my new house that i'm moving into in two weeks. The new shaw plans are shitty for the fact that there is no middle plan really anymore. Even their dial-up like plan is the same 75$/month that the 50/5 plan is. I might try to see if I can score a students plan although i'm kind of not a student this year. I'd be happier with 25/2.5 for half the price.
Dog Problems
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Smokey said:
Yeah, you can check it on their website. Register on there and it's under the "Users and Settings" tab, I believe.
TheExodu5 said:
SoC is smooth as butter here now that I disabled vsync across the board. Like almost no loading times.
The UI feels very odd tho. I almost get the impression that it wasn't meant for widescreen monitors. It's probably my biggest complaint.
Xamdou said:
250, actually. I've never hit it myself, averaging around 75-150 a month across three to four PCs.
Technosteve
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anyone want to gift me a copy of frozen synapse for a strange sticky launcher
Anticitizen One
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Smokey said:lol that 200GB cap or whatever Comcast puts in place seems mighty small now.
Factor in game downloads, streaming, etc
wait what? I have comcast and havent heard anything about a cap. I live in south florida.
With AT&T I usually can only download at about 300kb/s and I have a 150 gig cap, but I'm not able to check my data usage so who knows how close I come or if I've even gone over. I'm not paying overage charges if I can't track my own bandwidth while the company is tracking it.
Shambles said:
I'm not in Western Canada, sadly. I'm stuck with awful Rogers, where I pay $70/mo for 25mbps and a 120GB cap.
I guess Shaw must have backed from their 250mbps plans...I can't see them on their site anymore. When they were advertising their new plans, they have 250mbps unlimited for $120, I thought. :|
Still, 100mbps and 500GB cap for $70 isn't too bad.
echoshifting
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A lot of folks are missing receipts or having receipts show up late (myself included). I would wait until the dust has settled and the sale has passed before worrying, unless you absolutely need it immediately as though you were some sort of responsible adult.
It guess it's a matter of role-playing vs player-like AI, which creates the more interesting experiences in a single-player game? In Civ4 you can create powerful "artificial" bonds through religion etc that wouldn't really beneficial to them, but it does make for some interesting choices, sticking with your own magic man in the sky or joining an alliance.1-D_FTW said:
Civ5 was clearly designed with an AI that's out to win the game. The problem with this approach is that it makes friendly relations much less meaningful (if you're ahead, they hate you, if you're behind, they want to conquer you), and the AI just comes off as irrational even though there might be some good reasoning going on below. It might work better if they could give you some better explanation of their actions (this might have been something they tweaked in the latest patch in fact, I haven't played that much since), rather than just suddenly going from loving to hating you.
(As an aside, something that I found quite hilarious is that if you make a declaration of friendship and they backstab you through a denouncement, YOU get a penalty with all the other civs, "you must be a really shitty friend!")
For Civ to be fun even when you get crushed half-way through there needs to be interesting stories made, and in that regard I think Civ5 does a bit worse than Civ4. If there ever is an expansion to Civ5 I certainly hope it's focused on diplomacy and trade to promote interaction beyond pointy sticks.
Soren Johnson (lead designer on Civ4) did a talk at Google last year, "Playing to Lose", you can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJcuQQ1eWWI
...Oh. Right. Steam sale. Buy some shit.
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